StackBlitz

8 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 13, 2025 by Eric Simons · said 4 times in 4 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Mar 13, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Simons: Bolt grew from zero to over $30M ARR in 4.5 months
“In the first two months, we went from zero to twenty million of ARR. And I think we're on like month four or four and a half or something like that at this point. And we've already crossed thirty million of ARR and we're on the verge of crossing 40.”
Eric Simons Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 6:13 Inside Bolt: From near-death to one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons
Mar 13, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Simons: StackBlitz runs Bolt with 15-20 people and 3 support staff
“And our team's like 15, 20 people, you know, so it's just dealing with you know, we're going to be closing on like a 100,000 customers and we got our support teams, like three people.”
Eric Simons Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 7:46 Inside Bolt: From near-death to one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons
Mar 13, 2025 bullish
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Simons: Bolt forecasts reaching $100M ARR within the year
“Our forecast for the year is we want to get to a hundred million of ARR.”
Eric Simons Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 9:01 Inside Bolt: From near-death to one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons
Mar 13, 2025 negative
Insight
Simons: Tech startup turnover prevents long-term technical bets
“Like in Silicon Valley, it is usually folks are kind of at a job for, you know, to start for a kind of year or two, they kind of go to another, you know what I mean? And the problem with the turnover like that is that you can't, Take like really long bets like…”
Eric Simons Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 35:34 Inside Bolt: From near-death to one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons
Mar 13, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Simons: 67% of Bolt users are non-developers
“And we just kept seeing more and more and more people that were not developers using it to the point where it's like 70, 67% of our users are not developers, right? At this point.”
Eric Simons Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 55:06 Inside Bolt: From near-death to one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons
Mar 13, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Simons: StackBlitz built Bolt in 90 days
“We built the thing in 90 days. We built Bolton.”
Eric Simons Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 30:30 Inside Bolt: From near-death to one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons
Mar 13, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Simons: Bolt reached $20M ARR without mobile responsiveness
“We got the twenty million of ARR without a mobile responsive view, by the way.”
Eric Simons Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 30:56 Inside Bolt: From near-death to one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons
Mar 13, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Bolt runs a full operating system locally inside the user's web browser
“With bold, we like in the past seven years, what our company has been doing has been building an operating system that runs inside of your browser locally using your CPU.”
Eric Simons Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 11:49 Inside Bolt: From near-death to one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons
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